{"id":4779,"date":"2023-05-23T08:11:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T20:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4779"},"modified":"2023-05-23T08:11:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T20:11:38","slug":"prime-minister-chris-hipkins-to-take-up-offer-to-visit-india-and-talk-free-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4779","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Chris Hipkins to take up offer to visit India and talk free trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Chris Hipkins will be taking up an offer from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the country and talk about a potential free trade agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Hipkins has returned from Papua New Guinea where he met with leaders from the Indo-Pacific region, the United States Secretary of State and the Indian Prime Minister at the United States-Pacific Summit.<\/p>\n<p>Hipkins told\u00a0<i>Morning Report<\/i>\u00a0he will not be able to get to India before the election but Trade Minister Damien O&#8217;Connor would visit pre-election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there are opportunities for us to continue to broaden and deepening our trading relationship,&#8221; Hipkins said.<\/p>\n<p>But, he said, &#8220;India obviously has had bottom lines previously around trade&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t achieve a trade agreement simply by telling another country you&#8217;re going to have a trade agreement with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other countries that had secured a trade deal with India had done so off the back of a long relationship and it usually excluded the primary sector, he said.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Chris Hipkins will be taking up an offer from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the country and talk about a potential free trade agreement. Hipkins has returned from Papua New Guinea where he met with leaders from the Indo-Pacific region, the United States Secretary of State and the Indian Prime Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4781,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions\/4781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}